WileyPLUS

What do you like best?

WileyPLUS is fantastic for educators. It frees up time for me and grades homeworks and quizzes. It's a valuable resource for students with homework hints, links to the text, and other ancillary items that help your students get the support they need in real time. It's more than just an online textbook, it's a true classroom management tool that is a game changer. It's helped me shift my role in the classroom from teacher to facilliator. There's lots of classroom resources available and I get to select the sections I want to present and share with students. The bonus is in the almost 8 years I have been using it, the developers of WileyPLUS have constantly evolved to improve features and stay ahead of the tech curve. I plan on doing a full dive into CANVAS course integration in the fall.

What do you dislike?

There's no downsides. I would recommend if you are a HS teacher to spend the first day of class getting your kids signed up and walking them through how to navigate it. It's pretty intuitive, but that's a good practice to implement.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

I am saving time- no more grading homeworks and quizzes. I can set the parameters of multiple tries, hints, due dates, and due times. This has helped me reinforce the process of problem solving in physics over "what's the answer." I do this by assigning the same homework sets to all students, but each gets different numbers. There's so many choices and options and it's really easy to use.